Bangkok, is perhaps one of the most well planned and most compartmentalized cities on earth. Various businesses and institutions are neatly located in specific districts. This photo was at a shop in a district devoted to the restoration of of old auto parts.

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From atop the Lamberti Tower you can see out over all of Verona and down into the streets below. It was threatening rain and the chill of winter was still in the air even though it was well into March. Peering over the railing on one side I found this paper airplane lodged beneath a wire, ready for liftoff.

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Since they are not burnable garbage, large appliances are simply thrown into dumps like this one north of Funafuti. The island climate causes machinery to rust quickly, while maintenance and transport are extremely expensive, with the result that the mounds of trash just keep getting bigger.

Kite battle at Santa Marta ghetto, Rio de Janeiro. For many years, the kites were used to alert the drug dealers when their enemies were coming. The place were a “war zone” controlled by traffikers that were in constant conflits against each other to control the drug market. Fews years ago, Santa Marta was occupied by the Pacifier Police Division that released the popullation from the traffic domination.

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Devotee pray to the largest and tallest Lord Buddha statue ever to be built in Bhutan. Standing at 169 feet, this bronze statue of Buddha Dordenma, Vajra Throne Buddha is being erected at Kuensel Phodrang in Changbangdu, overlooking the Thimpu capital city

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This is the tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun son of the later Emperor Shah Jahan. The tomb was commissioned by Humayun's wife Hamida Banu Begum in 1562 AD, and designed by Mirak Mirza Ghiyath, a Persian architect. It was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent.

Yuchanglou has been nicknamed the "zigzag building", because the vertical wooden post structure is not straight and perpendicular, but zigzags left and right. It was built that way due to an error measuring the building materials. But in spite of this apparent infirmity, this tall tulou withstood 700 hundred years of natural elements and social turmoil.

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Norh west Iceland: Hvitserkur protrudes out of the sea in the western part of the Huna Bay. The sea erosion has carved three holes through its foundations and sculptures it in the shape of a petrified monster.
A few bird species occupy the precipice as can be seen by the guano. The foundations have been fortified with concrete to prevent erosion.

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Photo was taken at dusk on New Years Eve 2010 on a north side beach of Chicago. I was shooting a beautiful magic hour that day. People seemed to be coming in and out of the fog. I saw this guy wandering just out of reach from the fog and snapped this pic. It is really a reflective moment.

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Santo Stefano's church is perhaps the only one in Assisi that maintains its own characteristics from the third century until today. The unique nave contains, as few figurative elements, a Madonna Enthroned and a part of a crucifixion. The air that you breathe, away from the center and tourism, however, is full of peace and history.

An amazing hall with thousands of chained metal baskets & cages, taken inside an abandoned coal mine.
These cages are called Kaue. It was used by the miners to put their clothes, shoes and private belongings in. They could lever the cage by a chain, and lock it. Each chain had its unique number, counting up to 4700 and more. Gives you an idea of the size of this place.
Impressive and surreal scenery. I've never seen anything like it before.

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I was walking through the narrow streets of Havana in the late afternoon, trying to capture the mood of the old city. An old American car with its owner standing in a doorway caught me eye. With El Capitolio in the background, a young couple suddenly stopped, arguing and throwing long shadows. The scene lasted only a second before they walked off and the street once again filled with traffic.

I was woken by the early morning call to prayer, and battling sleep deprivation, realised that meant dawn was almost upon me. So i threw on some clothes, grabbed my camera and pushed open the loose hatch leading to the roof of my hotel in the old town of Sana'a. Spying a water barrel higher up, i climbed a rickety ladder, hoisted myself on top and balanced there with my tripod, waiting for the sun to rise... only for it to be perfectly behind the mosque in front of me!